Minamiosumi Town

Two torii stand side by side.

Suwa Shrine, side-by-side torii

Photo by B2neko (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Former Sata Medicinal Garden

Planting a longan tree given to the lordis said to be where the garden began.

This national Historic Site is in Izashiki. The Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that it originated in a longan tree presented to the domain lord in Jokyo 4, which was planted here, and that medicinal plants were also grown in the Horeki and Meiwa years. The Horikiri garden had 28 longan trees at the time of designation.

National Historic Site (designated 1932)
Longan planted in Jokyo 4
Horikiri garden: about 800 tsubo

02 ／ Sata Misaki Festival

The portable shrine has been carriedfrom settlement to settlement, as a relay.

This is a prefecture-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property. The town tourism site writes that the settlements take turns carrying the procession, which leaves Misaki Shrine early in the morning and reaches Chikatsunomiya Shrine in the evening. The prefecture's public relations magazine describes the festival as the younger deity of Misaki Shrine going about 20 km to greet the elder deity of Chikatsunomiya Shrine for the new year.

Prefecture-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property
About 20 km from Misaki Shrine to Chikatsunomiya Shrine
Rites in the Nanaura settlements along the way

03 ／ Ogawa Falls

Water runs in steps over geometric rockand drops into the plunge pool.

The Japan Tourism Agency's guide text gives the Ogawa Falls as 60 m wide and 46 m high. At the end of the trail, water flows in tiers over geometric rock and falls into the pool. When conditions are right the pool turns a vivid emerald green, most often seen in periods of low rainfall.

60 m wide, 46 m high
Trail about 1.2 km one way
Kirishima-Kinkowan National Park

Living here

No railway; the gateway is Nejime Port.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

The town has no railway, and its gateway is Nejime Port. The town's access page lists the Ferry Nankyu from Yamagawa Port in Ibusuki to Nejime Port in 50 minutes, a bus from Tarumizu Port to Nejime in 1 hour 6 minutes, and a bus from Kanoya to Nejime in 50 minutes.

People living here: 6,481people
Area: 213.59km²
Households: 3,153households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 8 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —3 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Minamiosumi Town in Japan31.217°N 130.768°E

Territory of Minamiosumi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

28.1km

錦江町, 肝付町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Minamiosumi Town isthis kind of town.

01Suwa Shrine in Kawaminami, Nejime, is described by the town tourism site as striking for its side-by-side torii, and the town's map says children's bibs are offered at its hall to wish for their growth
02Cape Sata lies at the southernmost point of the mainland, and Misaki Shrine, where the Misaki Festival begins, stands in a cycad thicket on the cape
03Kubo no Tanokami in Kawakita, Nejime, is a prefecture-designated Folk Cultural Property said by the town tourism site to date from 1731, and Nejime is also the birthplace of the picture-book author Taro Yashima

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Minamiosumi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗